The Contemporary Pacific back issues from March 1998:
Creating their own culture: diasporic Tongans.
Mar 22, 1998; ... I'm interested in doing something to do with the Tongan culture, but I want to expose it. I'm just so sick of everyone saying how friendly Tongans are when in actual fact, they're not, they're real demons, they're tevolo [devils, mischievous ...
The stench of the past: revisionism in Pacific Islands and Australian history.
Mar 22, 1998; ... The dead need history," Greg Dening wrote (1996, 96). "I feel one of the obligations of the public element of my intellectual life is to give voice to the dead, especially of the victims" (1996, 95). It is inevitable that such history is not for the dead alone. "The living need history, ...
Should we hate or love MIRAB? (Migration, Remittances, Aid, and Bureaucracy)
Mar 22, 1998; ... A development process where remittances and foreign aid are the main economic resources of the local economy was defined by Bertram and Watters as the MIRAB model (Migration, Remittances, Aid, and Bureaucracy; 1985). Bertram (1986, 1993) suggested that it is a perfectly "sustainable" ...
Do migrants' remittances decline over time? Evidence from Tongans and Western Samoans in Australia.
Mar 22, 1998; ... The main focus of this paper is on the determinants of migrants' remittances, based on a study of Pacific Island migrants in Australia. Of growing concern among policymakers in remittance- and foreign aid--dependent Pacific Island states is the longer term sustainability of external ...
Dialogue: an interview with Patricia Grace. (Pacific Literature)(Interview)
Mar 22, 1998; ... I first met Patricia Grace in the fall of 1994 during a Pacific Writers Forum that was cosponsored by the East-West Center and the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai`i. She was with her husband, Dick, and I became aware of a writer who was very much into family ...
Conspiracy, class, and culture in Oceania: a view from the Cook Islands.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Oceanicism, the South Pacific version of orientalism, has been, like its Northern Hemisphere equivalent, a homogenizing project of power and discourse that has created racialized identities, essentialized mentalities, and cultural typologies. While popular publications such as Pacific ...
Micronesia in review: issues and events, 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997. (Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau)
Mar 22, 1998; ... Reviews of the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, and Nauru are not included in this issue. GUAMThe highlights during the review period were the 1996 elections and the continuing effort to achieve commonwealth political status for Guam. ...
Polynesia in review: issues and events, 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997. (Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Maori, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvula)
Mar 22, 1998; ... Reviews of American Samoa, and Wallis and Futuna are not included in this issue. COOK ISLANDSThe shrinking economy was the crucial issue in 1996-97. The government's budget policy statement accepted that the economy shrank a further 4.1 percent during the year, ...
Oceanic Art - Ozeanisch Kunst - Art Oceanien.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Oceanic Art, by Nicholas Thomas. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1995. ISBN 0-500-20281-8, 216 pages, figures, maps, color plates, photographs, index, references. Paper, 6.95 [pounds sterling]; US$14.95; NZ$29.95.The publication of two books with the same title, in the same year, that ...
Oceanic Art.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Oceanic Art--Ozeanisch Kunst--Art Oceanien, by Anthony J P Meyer. Cologne: Konemann, 1995. ISBN 3-89508-080-2, 640 pages (in 2 volumes), figures, maps, drawings, color plates, photographs, foldouts, glossary, reading list. A$150.00; NZ$189.00. Distributed by Edition Habit Press for New ...
Protection, Power, and Display: Shields of Island Southeast Asia and Melanesia.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Protection, Power and Display: Shields of Island Southeast Asia and, Melanesia, edited by Andrew Tavarelli. Chestnut Hill, MA: Boston College Museum of Art, 1995. ISBN 0-9640153-3-1, 108 pages, color plates, photographs, figures, maps, references. Paper, US$12.95.The publication of ...
Arts of Vanuatu.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Arts of Vanuatu, edited by Joel Bonnemaison, Kirk Huffman, Christian Kaufmann, and Darrel Tryon. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press; Paris: Reunion des Musees Nationaux; Bathurst, NSW: Crawford House Publishing, 1996. ISBN 0-8148-1956-x, 338 pages. Illustrations, maps, notes, ...
Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Becoming Tongan: An Ethnograpby of Childhood, by Helen Morton. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 1996. ISBN 0-8248-1758-8, ix + 343 pages, tables, maps, photographs, appendixes, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, US$45.00; paper, US$22.95.Morton's Becoming Tongan is ...
Gender Rituals: Female Initiation in Melanesia.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Gender Rituals: Female Initiation in Melanesia, edited by Nancy C Lutkehaus and Paul B Roscoe. Routledge: New York and London, 1995. ISBN 0-415-91106-0 (cloth), ISBN 0-415-91107-9 (paper), xix + 265 pages, tables, maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. Cloth, US$59-95; paper, ...
Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place and Politics in Maritime Melanesia.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Guardians of Marovo Lagoon: Practice, Place, and Politics in Maritime Melanesia, by Edvard Hviding. Pacific Islands Monograph Series 14. Honolulu: Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai`i and University of Hawai`i Press, 1996 ....
A Sustainable Future for Melanesia? Natural Resources, Population and Development.
Mar 22, 1998; ... A Sustainable Future for Melanesia? Natural Resources, Population and Development, by Bob Thistlethwaite and Derrin Davis. Pacific Policy Paper 17. Canberra: National Centre for Development Studies and Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, 1996. ISBN ...
Sociocultural Issues and Economic Development in the Pacific Islands.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Sociocultural Issues and Economic Development in the Pacific Islands, by Penelope Schoeffel. Pacific Studies Series. Manila: Asian Development Bank, 1996. ISBN 971-561-081-1, xiii + 179 pages, map, notes, bibliography, tables. First edition is free of charge.Commissioned by the ...
New Politics in the South Pacific.
Mar 22, 1998; ... New Politics in the South Pacific, edited by Werner vom Busch, Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe, Ron Crocombe, Linda Crowl, Tony Deklin, Peter Larmour, and Esther Winimamaori Williams. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific in association with the Pacific Islands ...
Literacy, Emotion, and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Literacy, Emotion, and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll, by Niko Besnier. Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language 17. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-48087-6, xx + 234 pages, tables, maps, notes, photographs, bibliography, index ....
Critical and Developmental Literacy.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Critical and Developmental Literacy, edited by Otto Ignatius M S Nekitel, Steven Edmund Winduo, and Sakarepe Kamene. Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea Press, 1995- ISBN 9980-84-062-5, 195 pages, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. Paper, US$26.00.Literacy and ...
State Ward.
Mar 22, 1998; ... What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted? by Alan Duff. Sydney: Random House Australia, 1996. ISBN 1-86941-310-5, 216 pages. Paper, NZ$29.95.Alan Duff erupted onto the literary scene in New Zealand in 1990 with his first novel, Once Were Warriors. It sold thirty thousand copies in New ...
What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted?
Mar 22, 1998; ... State Ward, by Alan Duff. Auckland: Random House New Zealand, 1994. ISBN 1-86941-214-1, 129 pages. Paper, NZ$17.95.Alan Duff erupted onto the literary scene in New Zealand in 1990 with his first novel, Once Were Warriors. It sold thirty thousand copies in New Zealand and won a ...
Nights in the Gardens of Spain.
Mar 22, 1998; ... Nights in the Gardens of Spain, by Witi Ihimaera. Auckland: Secker & Warburg, 1995. ISBN 0-7900-0406-2, 304 pages. Cloth, NZ$34.95; paper, NZ$24.95.In the introduction to Te Ao Marama: Contemporary Maori Writing (volume 3), a six-volume anthology of which Witi Ihimaera is principal ...